It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.